Fallout 76: Atlantic City PTS Update and Highlights Notes

Our latest iteration of the Public Test Server transports you to Atlantic City!

Explore the Boardwalk, meet new friends (and foes), and more! We hope you will join us in trying out this new content and are very interested in your feedback and bug reports with us in the Bethesda Studios Discord Server. Read on for top-level highlights in this PTS.

Updates are listed in chronological order, scroll down for the most recent changes.

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Welcome to Atlantic City!

Welcome to Atlantic City! Try your luck at the Casino, marvel at underwater sights, and enjoy the endless entertainment on the Boardwalk. This update brings a new explorable area to Fallout 76, new expeditions, enemy groups, and more!

New Expeditions

Tax Evasion

Billy Beltbuckles, the mafia’s “accountant” needs your help cooking the books, if you catch the drift. A little smudge in the books here, some misplaced money over there, whatever you can do to avoid paying dues to the Showmen and Munis. Death and taxes wait for no one, and being terrified of conflict means Billy will need your help on a regular basis.

The Most Sensational Game

Come one, come all to The Most Sensational Game! Step right up and see if you have what it takes to survive a deadly race against the infamous Batsuuri Twins. Navigate this perilous race carefully! Danger is around every corner, not only in the form of obstacles but in your opponents as well. Survive until the finish line and be crowned the Boardwalk’s newest Sensation!

New Locations

Neapolitan Casino

Try your luck at the casino! Win big at various games such as Roulette and Lucky Dice.

The Boardwalk

Home of the Showmen, the Boardwalk offers deadly entertainment and the famous underwater Aquarium of the Atlantic!

New Factions

The Showmen

Performers and entertainers of all kinds who provide entertainment for the city. They are obsessed with self-actualization and will go to dangerous or even fatal lengths to achieve it.

Municipal Government

These hard-working citizens keep the day to day of Atlantic City running, and they’re not afraid to get their hands dirty to collect taxes.

The Family

Based out of the Casino Quarter, these mobsters are in charge of vice, chems, and gambling in the city.

New enemies

The Overgrown

Chaotic and mysterious, these nature-based enemies have only one mission in mind: spread.

Lesser Devil

A new predatory cryptid that hunts in packs and uses both powerful melee attacks and projectiles.

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Additional Features

New and Improved locations

Gillman Lumber Mill: The responders have taken over the Gillman Lumber Mill and set up a new vendor, specializing in weapon skins and backpacks!

Factions: We’ve added various new points of interest associated with different factions in the Forest area, and a new Daily Quest in the region.

Loadouts

We’ve made various changes to pre-made Loadouts you can choose from after exiting Vault 76. This includes changes to recipes, munitions, inventory and more.

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Design Changes and improvements

Audios: We’ve removed mentions of ultracite battery cells from Responder dialogues.
Backpacks: When leaving the Vault, players will be granted the new Vault Backpack.
Crafting: Known expedition plans and recipes no longer show as available for purchase in Giuseppe’s shop.
Enemies: We’ve made various balance changes to lower-level enemies and creatures and adjusted the health values for various enemy groups that appear in events.
Perks: Single rank Perk cards will now appear in Perk Card Packs.
Perks: Weapon Damage perks now correctly increase damage dealt.
User Interface: By Default, only Main and Event quests are tracked on your screen. This can be changed in the settings menu.
Vendors: We’ve added Ammo and Medical machines to the Whitespring Mall.

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Update notes November 3, 2023

Today’s PTS update comes with hundreds of fixes, we’ve included some of the most prominent ones you’ll notice below.

Design Changes, Improvements, & Bug fixes

Quests

• Rebalanced the number, and difficulty, of enemy encounters in both "Tax Evasion" and "The Most Sensational Game"
• Fixed a bug that would see "The Twins" revived when backtracking through the Boardwalk after "The Most Sensational Game"
• Revised placement for Sal during his involvement in "Tax Evasion", and adjusted some of his dialogue
• Balanced and verified rewards for both missions
• Additional refinement to streamline mission objectives on "Tax Evasion"
• Added proper quest fanfare art for "Tax Evasion" and "The Most Sensational Game"
• Resolved some issue around Billy Beltbuckles getting into combat with the Showmen during "Tax Evasion"
• Changed the hold button for tracking new quests- It is now Dpad Down on controller and G on keyboard. This allows players to freely open the map, but will block emoting while the quest tracker is on-screen
• Miscellaneous quests will no longer trigger the Quest Available Fanfare
• Main Quests can now trigger the Quest Available fanfare if they are not set to auto track

World

• Resolved some areas where the player could become stuck in the Casino
• Adjusted the placement of some objects and furniture in the Casino, for better player interaction
• Adjusted the activation zone on the "Inconspicuous Assets"
• Fixed a number of visual issues in the Casino Quarter area
• Fixed bugs with "unresponsive" furniture inside the Casino
• Fixed some stair navigation issues for actors inside the Casino

Items

• Tato Grenades should have improved visuals and no longer bounce
• Adjusted recipes and build limits for building Casino games in Workshop
• Fixed an issue with Overgrown missile explosions not playing
• Fixed numerous Workshop placement issues around new items
• Fixed several minor cosmetic issues with Overgrown style weapon skins
• Fixed a bug around placing a Care Package at Settler's Ridge
• The Plan for the Vault Tec survival backpack should now be tradeable
• Players no longer get a free Small Vault-Tech Survival backpack when crafting a Small Backpack
• The Small Vault-tec survival backpack now properly changes names when a different skin is applied
• Vault Tec Survival Backpack now correctly displays if its Small
• Moved Recipe: Small Backpack from the Overseer's Cache in Morgantown to the cache at the Overseer's Camp near the Wayward.

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See you in the PTS!